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Recently I visited a classroom where a poster on the wall displayed an array of diverse-looking butterflies. Below were the words diversity creates dimension in our world. Knowing that I was about to begin writing about diversity, I sighed a big sigh of relief! Finally I knew how I would begin.
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Epp, M. (2015). Diversity Creates Dimension. In: Horton, T.A., Lemisko, L. (eds) Educator to Educator. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-986-9_6
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